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Principal Platform Power and Performance Engineer

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-15 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead technical strategy and optimization for silicon and platform power-performance architecture, focusing on AI infrastructure, datacenter efficiency, and workload characterization.

Role type

Principal Platform Power and Performance Engineer

Builds

Optimized AI compute platforms and datacenter infrastructure

Domain

Cloud computing, AI infrastructure, hardware systems

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

SoC/CPU/GPU/AI accelerator architecture design, power management, performance analysis, memory subsystem optimization, thermal solutions, workload characterization, cross-functional hardware/firmware/OS collaboration, silicon bring-up, hyperscale cloud operations, liquid cooling technologies, performance-per-watt optimization

Preferred skills

Experience with Azure datacenter deployments, custom silicon development, server architecture, liquid cooling technologies

Technologies

SoC, CPU, GPU, AI accelerators, firmware, operating systems, datacenter infrastructure, liquid cooling systems

Responsibilities

Define requirements and deliver optimized platform solutions for power and efficiency, lead power-performance characterization and benchmarking using customer and synthetic workloads, influence future silicon and platform roadmaps, communicate technical strategies to executive stakeholders, analyze interactions between silicon, power delivery, and thermal solutions

Seniority

Principal, strategy & mentorship

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